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Netanyahu: Thank you America for your service

Netanyahu: Thank you America for your service

One year after Gaza invasion, US complicity is everywhere in the smoldering ruins

Analysis | Video Section
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It's been one year since Israel invaded Gaza in its campaign to destroy Hamas in the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks. Since then, the Biden Administration has given Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government everything it wanted and has posed little resistance as the Israeli military has killed more than 42,000 people, mostly civilians, destroyed most of the buildings and infrastructure,, and created one of the worst humanitarian crises in recent memory. The word "ceasefire" is increasingly absent from Biden's public remarks or the White House briefing room.

A new video, produced by the Quincy Institute, puts these grim statistics in sharp relief.


Top photo: Steve McMaster/Khody Akhavi
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The military is babying F-35s to hide their true cost to taxpayers

Military Industrial Complex

Are the military services babying the F-35 to obscure its true costs while continuing to get enormous sums of taxpayer funding for a plane that has consistently failed to live up to performance expectations?

From the very beginning, the F-35 program has been plagued by hundreds of billions of dollars in cost overruns and repeated schedule delays.

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Top photo credit: U.S. Army, Navy, Marine and multinational senior leaders, receive a briefing on the inner workings of the Joint Multinational Readiness Center, (JMRC), during a distinguished visit at the JMRC, Hohenfels, Germany Feb. 15, 2013. (US Army photo by Spc. Michael Sharp)

Military is dumbing down to the detriment of national security

Military Industrial Complex

This article is the latest installment in our Quincy Institute/Responsible Statecraft project series highlighting the writing and reporting of U.S. military veterans. Click here for more information.


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Owen West Clearview AI
Top Image Credit: Left image: Defense Officials Testify on SOCOM and Cybercom 02.14.19 (YouTube/Screenshot)/ Right image: Ascannio (Shutterstock)

Controversial AI facial recognition biz gets a Pentagon champion

Military Industrial Complex

Owen West, the incoming head of the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), previously advised Clearview AI, an invasive facial recognition technology company that has heavily involved itself in the Ukraine war to try to shed its pariah status in the commercial sector.

Created in 2015 to boost collaboration between the Pentagon and Silicon Valley, the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) was given more than $1.3 billion in taxpayer funds to in 2025 to bring commercial technologies into the defense space through contract acquisition and award programs, public-private partnerships, and other opportunities.

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